Terrence serves as Executive Chairman of cross-border market strategy and sustainable development advisory Tenso Barterre Group. As a senior US diplomat, top market strategist, Harvard College and Harvard Business School alumnus and in various C-suite executive leadership roles, he has worked closely with key decision-makers of complex and entrepreneurial entities worldwide.
At TBG and throughout his career, he has generated breakthrough sustainable growth outcomes by mobilizing public and private strategic market alliances and capital sources. Sectors served include clean/green renewable resources, regenerative rural land and sustainable urban/exurban built-environs, health and wellness, higher education, high value intercultural markets and various advanced sustainable technology and service delivery systems.
His leadership experience includes:
- University Professor, Vice President and Chief International Officer at Alliant International University in San Francisco where he led and grew regional campus operations in Tokyo, Hong Kong and Mexico City, and advanced programs and alliances in Latin America, Asia, Europe, Near East and Africa
- President & CEO of medical foods innovator RiceX in El Dorado Hills, California, where he led alliances abroad, including collaborations addressing the HIV/AIDS crisis in South Africa
- Governor's Representative and Managing Director of Asia, based in Tokyo, overseeing California Offices of Trade and Investment in Hong Kong, Shanghai, Taipei, Tokyo, Seoul and Singapore
- Executive Director and Special Senior Foreign Service Officer by Secretarial appointment overseeing Agricultural Trade Offices in Japan serving as chief marketing officer for US Agriculture in Japan leading marketing programs for sixty national and regional trade groups at the US Embassy in Tokyo
- Senior Director of Strategic Planning, Evaluation and Compliance serving as chief strategist at the US Foreign Agricultural Service in Washington DC where he directed USDA's first international trade strategy, guiding $100+ mm in market development and $5 billion in trade finance resources
- CEO of BHP Associates, cross-border advisory in Singapore, Geneva and Sacramento
- Principal Consultant to the California Assembly Standing Committee on Economic Development and New Technology and the California Senate Special Committee on the Pacific Rim in Sacramento
- California Community Colleges State Director of Small Business Programs in Sacramento
- Vice President and Manager of Bank of California Capital Services (Mitsubishi Bank M&A strategy services involving US-Japan alliances in food, pharmaceutical and technology sectors) in San Francisco
- Senior Financial Engineer and Strategist at Agribusiness Associates Inc., US strategy advisory arm of the Central Agricultural Banks of Western Europe in Boston
- Assistant Vice President and Manager of International Loan Review at The Bank of California; AVP for Asia and Technology Loan Examination at Wells Fargo Bank in San Francisco
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